SH Group: modernising email, files and device management

A construction business with an older IT setup

SH Group is a property development and construction business based in Eastwood. Its previous IT setup used Exchange for email and shared network drives for business files. Staff needed a VPN connection to work with those shared drives. The company had an older network, and the project focused on changing how its email and files were delivered.

Adroit Support worked on connected changes: migrating Exchange email to Office 365, moving files from the shared drives to OneDrive, and moving from an on-premises Active Directory environment to a setup using Microsoft 365 Business Premium and Intune.

Moving email to Office 365

The email work moved SH Group from its existing Exchange setup to Office 365. This was a defined change to the company's email environment, rather than a replacement of every business system.

Moving files away from VPN-dependent shared drives

The file migration moved the company's shared-drive content to OneDrive. It addressed a specific constraint in the previous setup: staff needed a VPN connection to reach the network drives.

Access to working files matters wherever a construction business's people are working. Moving those files was therefore a separate part of the project alongside the email migration.

Business Premium and Intune

SH Group also moved to Microsoft 365 Business Premium and Intune as part of the change from its on-premises Active Directory setup. Intune provided the device-management part of the new approach. The on-premises Active Directory server was retired after the migration.

The result

The migrations are complete: email moved to Office 365, shared-drive files moved to OneDrive, and the business adopted Microsoft 365 Business Premium and Intune. The former on-premises Active Directory server was retired. The changes brought email, files and device management into the new Microsoft 365 setup.

Considering a similar change?

If your business relies on an older email platform or VPN access to shared files, start by identifying what needs to move and who controls the existing accounts. Our IT provider handover checklist helps you prepare those questions.

Adroit Support provides Microsoft 365 administration and project support. We can discuss your current email system, shared files, access arrangements and the change you need.